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ID: LSAT-LR-076
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Inference
Difficulty level: Medium

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The Halsey trust owns forty cottages. Every cottage with a thatched roof is listed, and every listed cottage is let on a long lease. Twenty-six of the trust's cottages are let on short leases, and the trust lets no cottage on both kinds of lease at once. Every cottage it owns is let on one or the other.

If the statements above are true, which one of the following must also be true?

ANo more than fourteen of the forty cottages owned by the Halsey trust can have thatched roofs.

BMore of the trust's forty cottages have thatched roofs than have roofs of any other kind, and every one of those is listed and let on a long lease.

CExactly fourteen of the trust's cottages are listed, one for each of the cottages that the trust lets on a long lease rather than a short one.

DAt least one of the forty cottages the Halsey trust owns has a thatched roof, and any cottage of that kind is listed and let by the trust on one of its long leases.

EEvery cottage that the Halsey trust lets on a long lease is a listed cottage, whether or not it happens to have a thatched roof.

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